Money paying and registering machine



MIH. MANN.

MONEY PAYING AND REGISTERING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED M AY II, 1918. I

Patented Feb. 17,1920.

2 SHEETS-SHEEI I I M. H. MANN. MONEY PAYING AND REGISTERING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY H, l9l8.-

Patented Feb. 17,1920.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

, UNITED STATE "PATENT OFFICE.

MILES H. MANN, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T0 INTERNATIONAL MONEY MACHINE COMPANY, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION.

MONEY PAYING AND REGISTERING- MACHINE.

Application filed May 11, 1918.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Minus H. MANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Money Paying and Registering Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to registering machines and to money paying and registering machines wherein a registering mechanism may be employed of a type requiring a manual or equivalent clearing operation incident to the use of a clearing shaft or similar-device. In the type of registering mechanism above referred to a movement of the clearing shaft or device is required, away from its normal position, and a subsequent restoring movement is necessary in order to place the registers zeroized by said clearing device in a condition for starting to register a series of transactions. If the res toration of the clearing device, whatever it may be, isnot attended to, and it is frequently forgotten where the action is to be manually performed, the registering mechanism will not register up correctly and hence an especial object of this invention is to provide an alarm or audible signal by which the operator of the machine will be advised. of the improper positioning of the clearing device, should it be accidentally left at any position other than normal, after a clearing operation.

secondarily, the improvements hereof are adapted to a registering mechanism forming a part of a money paying and registering machine, or rather capable of substitution for a part of the paying mechanism, and under these conditions I have advantageously designed the signaling means above referred to so that said means is operable under the control of certain usual means provided for the paying mechanism of the machine. hen the paying mechanism is used as a paying mechani n the signaling means aforesaid performs its customary function of advising the operator of the need for replenishing coins or money in the money magazine of the machine while if the paying mechanism is converted into a mere actuating mechanism for my attachable register aforesaid the same signaling or alarnljmeans is utilized to indicate the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 17,1920.

erial No. 233,917.

improper positioning of the clearing shaft of such registering mechanism after the manner first set forth.

These and such other objects as may hereinafter appear are attained by the novel construction, combination and arrangement ofparts to be hereinafter specifically described and claimed. Reference willnow be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, wherein,

r igure 1 1S a front View partly broken away, of an adding and money paying machine showing an attachable register in full lines on the paying section of the machine and showing in dotted lines the coin magazine which is removable from such paying section and interchangeable with the registering attachment Fig. 2 is a cross sectional View through the paying section of the machine as illustrated in Fig. 1; i

Fig. 3 is a front view of the back plate of the coin magazine attachable to the paying section of the machine;

Fig. 1 is a corresponding View of the back plate of the attachable registering mechanism; and i Fig. 5 is a sectional view showing the registers and actuating means therefor.

A reference to United States patents to Runquist No. 1,195,860 issued August 22nd, 1916, and White No. 1,249,869 issued December 11th, 1917, will give a full under standing of the type'of adding and money paying machine to which the present improvements are applied.

Assuming, therefore, a knowledge ofthe known construction of this machine, it may be observed that the same is comprised of the adding machine section A and the paying section B. The paying section B is equipped with the coin magazine 13 shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and "removable from the paying section to permit of the substitution for said magazine of a registering mechanism in the form of an attachment C. When so substituted the registers 2 of the attachment Gare operable by the actuators consisting of the ejectors 1307 by which the money is ejected from the holders of the coin magazine 13 when the latter is in use. The manner in which the registeringattachment Gis use fulin association with the adding machine A, to denon'iinationalize amounts of money set up on the adding machine A iswell understood today in the art. In other words, an amount set up on the adding machine A may be accumulated and listed by the customary mechanisms of said machine and at the same time said amount will be divided up into the smallest number of different denominations of money which go to make up such particular amount, the different denominations as units being registered on the registers 2. This phase of the action of the machine forms no particular part of the present invention.

It suffices to state that the registers 2 are mounted upon a supporting and clearing shaft 3 and movable by its handle or knob 1.

To clear the registers 2 the knob is customarily turned substantially nine-tenths of a revolution in one direction whereupon it is needful to restore it to its normal position to insure a proper action of the registers 2 for reasons not material to the present invention. If the said restoration does not take place an alarm will be sounded in the form of a ringing bell and the manner in which this is accomplished will now be set forth.

The patent of Runquist previously referred to fully presents certain bell ringing mechanism the action of which being known will not be set forth in detail. It suffices to state that the bell is designated 5 and may be struck by the tapper 6, said tapper being actuated under certain conditions through operation of a control bail 7 and intermediate devices. Under normal conditions of operation of the machine involving for each actuation of the main actuator or handle D, a back and forth movement of the bar 8'shiftable by an arm 9 on the ejector shaft 615, the bail 7 is oscillated. The bar 8 is connected with an arm 8 on a shaft 10 which shaft supports a main control lever 11 having a feeler finger 11; said shaft 10 also supports a plurality of auxiliary control levers 12 formed with corresponding feeler fingers 12'.

In connection with the operation of the machine shown, as a combined adding and money paying machine, the feeler fingers 12 and their levers 12 perform their controlling functions relatively to the bail 7 in substantially the manner set forth in the Runquist patent above identified. That is to say that the bell-5 will be rung if any one or more of the feeler fingers 1.2 is permitted to pass through a slot or slots in the back plate of the coin'magazine 13 shown in dotted lines in the drawings. V

When the registering attachment C is placed on the paying section B of the machine in substitution for said coin magazine 13 the back plate of the attachment not beingsupplied with slots or openings opposite the feeler fingers 12 renders these fingers inoperative so long as the attachment G is in use. But said back plate of the attachment C is formed with a single slot or opening through which the feeler finger 11 of the main control lever 11 may pass to engage with the lower end portion of a lever 14 pivoted within the casing of the attachment C. The lever 14 has a roller 15 adapted to be engaged by a projection 16 on a disk 17 fixed to the shaft 3 on which the registers 2 are mounted, and by which these registers are adapted to be cleared or zeroized.

The projection 16 cooperates with the lever 14 so long as the shaft 3 is disposed at its normal position, wherein the registers thereof are properly operable to perform their functions and in this way the lever 14 is held pressed inward against the tension of the spring 18 attached thereto. Correspondingly, the lever 14lpresses inward the feeler finger 11 of the lever 11, maintaining the upper end of said lever 11 inactive relative to the bail 7. The active cooperition of the lever 11 with the bail 7 is derived by tilting of the lever 11 so that its upper end may engage beneath the front edge of the bail 7 after the manner set forth in the Bunquist patent aforesaid. Should the operator turn the shaft 3 to zeroize the registers 2 and fail to restore the shaft, the parts 16 and 15 would no longer cooperate but the roller 15 would engage the periphcry of the disk 17 and permit a rocking of the lever 11 enabling its cooperation at its upper end with the bail 7 and causing the hell 5 to be rung when the operator pulls the handle D of the machine to set up a transaction. This will notify the operator that the transaction should be voided because the siaft 3 is not at normal, and a res-- toration of the shaft 3 to its proper position will be prompted as an incident to the operation of the signaling means.

The manner in which the signaling mechanism including the hell 5 has been rendered effective for cooperation with both the coin magazine and the registering attachment, interchangeable features of the general machine, by a very simple addition of a few parts as herein presented, constitutes an important practical feature of the lnvention hereof. Nevertheless it-is to be understood that I do not wish to be limited to the utilization of the signaling mechanism solely where the registering attachment C is asubstitutable attachment for a coin magazine, since the signaling means may be quite effectively used where the registering attachment C is a permanent part of the machine, not detachable therefrom, wherefore the various auxiliary levers 12 might of course be entirely dispensed with as super fiuous. I wish, therefore, that the claims appended hereto be read in the light of the foregoing contemplated modifications and adaptations of my improvements.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

1. In a machine of the class described, the combination with actuators adapted to operate as ejectors and as register operating devices, a base upon which the actuators are. mounted so constructed as to support a money magazine for which the actuators may act as ejectors, and to support a registerlng mechanism for which the actuators may act, as operating devices, and mechanism cooperative with a magazine when on the base to advise of replenishment requirements of such magazine, and cooperative with a registering mechanism when so disposed to advise of an abnormal condition of the latter.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination with actuators adapted to operate as ejectors and as register operating devices, a base upon which the actuators are mounted so constructed as to interchangea-bly support a money magazine for which the actuators may act as ejectors, and tosupport a registering mechanism for which the actuators may act as operating devices, and mechanism cooperative with a magazine when on the base to advise of replenishment requirements of such magazine, and cooperative with a registering mechanism when so substituted for the magazine to advise of an abnormal condition of the latter.

3. In a machine of the class described, the combination with actuators adapted to operate as ejector-s and as register operating devices, a base upon which the actuators are mounted so constructed as to support a money magazine for which the actuators may act 'as ejectors, and to support a registering mechanism for which the actuators may act as operating devices, and a signal cooperative with a magazine when on the base to advise of replenishment requirements of such magazine, and cooperative with a registering mechanism when so disposed to advise of an abnormal condition of the latter.

5%. In a machine of the class described, the combination with actuators adapted to operate as ejectors and as register operating devices, a base upon which the actuators are mounted so constructed as to support a money magazine for which the actuators may act as ejectors, and to support a registering mechanism for which the actuators may act as operating devices, a signal cooperative with a magazine when on the base to advise of replenishment requirements of such magazine, and cooperative with a registering mechanism when so disposed to advise of an abnormal condition of the latter, and a main actuator for the machine for causin operation'of the signal according to predetermined cooperation of the signal with the magazine or registering mechanism. 1

5. In a machine of the class described, the combination with actuators adapted to operate as ejectors and as register operating devices, a base upon which the actuators are mounted so constructed as to support a money magazine for which the actuators may 'act as ejectors, and to support a registering mechanism for which the actuators may act as operating devices, and signal means comprising main and auxiliary control devices operative in conjunction with the registering mechanism and magazine, respectively:

6. In a machine of the class described, the combination with actuators adapted to operate as ejectors and as register operating devices, a base upon which the actuators are mounted so constructed as to interchangeably support a money magazine for which the actuators may act as ejectors, and to support a registering mechanism for which the actuators may act as operating devices, and mechanism cooperative with a magazine when on the base to advise of replenishment requirements of such magazine, and cooperative with a registering mechanism when so substituted for the magazine to advise of an abnormal condition of the latter, said last named mechanism including interchangeably operative main and auxiliary signal control devices.

7 In a machine of the class described, the combination of registering mechanism including 'a clearing device for the registers thereof movable from and back to a normal position to clear the registers and adjust the registering mechanism for proper subsequent operation, signal means to advise an operator when the clearing device is out of normal position and adapted to be set for action by the clearing device, and positive actuating means to cause operation. of the last means and rendered active when the clearing device is positioned other than at normal.

8. In a machine of the class described,the combination of registering mechanism including a clearing device for the registers thereof movable from and back to a normal position to clear the registers and adjust the registering mechanism for proper subsequent operation. signal means to advise an operator when the clearing device is out of normal position, a shifting lever to set the signaling means for operation, and operating connections between the clearing device and the shifting lever to communicate movement of the clearing device to the lever to set the signaling means for action, and means to operate the signaling means when set for operation.

9. In a machine of the class described, the

combination of registering mechanism including a manually operable clearing device, registers associated therewith and properly operable only when the clearing device is in a predetermined position, a signal adapted the combination of "egistering mechanism including a clearing device, registers associated therewith and adapted to-be cleared as an incident to movement of the clearing device from and to a predetermined position, a signal control mechanism for efi'e'cting operation of said signal, and means intermediate said control mechanism and the clearing device acted upon by movement of the clearing device to render said control mech anism inoperative to effect action of the signal, when said clearing device is caused to assume any other than predetermined position, but to render said control mechanism effective to operate the signal at such time as the clearing device is caused to assume any 5 mechanism comprising main and auxiliary control mechanisms, the coin magazine comprising an element adapted to render the auxiliary control devices active and the main control device inactive, and the registering mechanism comprising an element capable of rendering the auxiliary control devices inactive and the main control device active.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature MILES H. MANN. 

